Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-04-28
DAKOTA TERRITORIAL NEWS.

UAhU1h Alhltl1 OlbA1AA NAHN
Marshall Mcclure formerly of flames
Town. will begin the publication OF
The Minot Tribune.
Kate Maloney, who was burned in
The Huron prairie fires, is dead.
Fargo will have a new college, under
The auspices of the Congregations
denomination. /.
A board OF trade has been formed
ut Sioux Falls.
The postofice at Maitland, Doug
lass county, and Starr, Hutchinson
county, nave been discontinued.
The Hicks-Trask Hardware com.
pany, Aberdeen, which recently as
signed, will resume business.
Frank E. Stevens, ex-county treasur-
If, on trial at Huron for embezzle-
Ement, was found not guilty.
Hereafter two-thirds OF the liquor
license fund OF Fargo will go to the
.ity for general purposes.
Sioux Falls petitions the postmas-
-ter-peneral for a free city delivery, and
i endeavoring to raise money Tor g.
$40 1000 board of trade building.
1t is reported that the st. Panlcom-
bany intends to build to Bismark this
fear. Surveying parties employed by
The road a SEVERAL lines into thecity
Eve or six years ago. Itisstated h
The railroad company is negotiating
ltor real estate is Bismarck for termin-
III facilities.
w. w. Anderson, agent at Crow
Creek, declares that no settlers were
removed except those living on the
Big Bend district, who,have been twice
Notified 20 vacate. Failing to comply
troops were ordered to remove them.
The object is to secure the district q
government pasture. No other on the
reservation have at any time received
personal notice to vacate.
Directors OF the territorial peniten-
tiary at Sioux Falls held a special
meeting to elect a warden, having
rome to an agreement. Daniel c. Gid
den was elected by vote OF three out
of five.
The board of directors of the North
Dakota p~enitentiary met at Bismarck
and organized, by the election OF j. A.
McCabe, one of the new Democratic
appoints of the chairman.
The Merchants National bank at
Deadwood reopened with abundant
lunds. The surplus has been increased
to $50, 600.
Six hundred more patents haxe just
been received by the United States
and Office in Huron.
Railroad Commissioner Boynton
has moved his family to Canton and
will hereafter make that city his head
quarters.
Louis and Annie Gilbertson, husband
and wife, OF Grand Forks, aged sixty
and fifty-nine years respectively, were
adiudged insane and sent to James
town asylum.
George Johnston, a resident Of Dav-
tson county since 1880, died at Mount
Vernon, aged e~ighty-fve years. He
vas the father OF George A. Johnston
bf Mi tchell and Z. S. Johnston, ofthe
Mount Vernon Gazette.
A special agent from the general
-
and Office is at Brookings with q list
81 fofty-fse suspended entries and the
register of deeds is making an abstract
IN each case to besentt to Washington.
They are all claims proved up under
The act of June /, 1880, which did not
require residence.
At Fargo O contract was entered
INTO with the Star Iron Tower COM
bany of Fort Wayne for the the ON
struction of a third electric tower to
be completed in a month.
Gen. Ruger said in st. Paul that all
that he knew about the movement OF
troops from Fort Sully on to the
Winnebago and Crow Creek agencies
vas that the agent had asked for the
military under the ord order OF a year
ago, and that the officer commanding
had sent him a company. As to the
report that the settlers on the reser-
walton would be shot if they did not
leave, he said that it was bosh.
Fears are apprehended of the safety
Of William Cannon, postmaster at
Fort Abraham Lincoln. Cannon is q
director OF the First National Bank of
Mandan, and owns considerable prop
srty. His credit and reputation are
first-class. He is fifty years of age and
unmarried. 1t is feared that temper
airy alteration OF mind led him to wan
der away.
At jamestown, the new artesian
we'll was measured by the committee
and found to be 1,476 LIZ feet deep.
The pressure was again tested with the
result a. before, los pounds. The
success OF the well will probably re-
suit in sinking two more-a railroad
well and one at the asylum.
The $4,000 stock of the Security
Savings Bank of Fargo has been sub
scribed.
T. X. Fulton and E. A. Gowan of
Grand Forks have purchased q lot
Tor 81, 500, and will erect a substan-
tial brisk building for asecond nation
al bank.
1t is believed now that atleast three
new railroads will enter Bismarck
this year.